the way things go ೃ⁀➷ the summer i turned pretty

chapter 12 .

           ╰┈➤ season 1 ⋆ the summer i turned pretty

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"jazzy.." belly whispered, "jasmine."

jasmine stirred, and groaned when she felt someone shake her.

"belly..?" she mumbled, "what time is it?"
"2 o'clock."
"am or pm?"
through sleepy eyes she saw belly look outside, "definitely am."
"belly," she groaned, "what the hell?"
"i'm sorry.. i know.. i know."
"is everything okay?"
"no.. yeah. i'm fine."

  jasmine sat up and rubbed her eyes. she quickly perked up.
"happy birthday," she said, and pulled belly into a hug.
she laughed, "thank you."

  she lazily got up from the bed, and over to her dresser where she pulled out a gift wrapped up in white and pink paper. she placed it in front of belly and smiled.
"jasmine.."
"open it..!"

  belly started to rip off the wrapping paper, and looked at the white box underneath.
she looked up at jasmine and smiled, "oh my god, what'd you get me?"
"open it," jasmine urged.
  she opened up the box, and inside was nicely folded up dress. on top was a pack of sour patch kids. she carefully took the sour patch kids out, and took out the dress. she held it up and it unraveled to a reddish pink summer dress. it was a spaghetti strap dress with no back, and was slightly ruffly at the bottom. belly smiled widely, and laid down the dress. she pulled jasmine into a hug and laughed softly.
she squealed into her shoulder, "thank you." it's so pretty..!"
"i thought you'd like it."
belly stared at the dress for a moment before nodding, "i do."
"now, what's up?"
she continued staring at the dress before folding it back up and sighing, "it's nothing.. i just.."

  jasmine watched her carefully. she saw her hesitate. she nodded for her to continue.

"last night.. when cam dropped me off."
"cam? that's his name? the boy from the bonfire?"
she nodded, "yeah. did i not tell you his name?"
"you probably did. anyways, continue."
"right.. um.. conrad."
jasmine sighed, "fuck.. what did his dumbass say?"
"he just— we kinda argued last night."
"you did? what happened?"
"he just told me that steven, and jere, and him were messing around. so.. i got mad. i said he ruined the date."

  jasmine nodded. she didn't say anything though, she let belly continue.

"he kept telling me to grow up.. and that i was baby."
"what? what'd you say?"
"i told him he was immature for crashing my first date," she said. she was picking at the blanket jasmine had draped over her.
"woah. what'd he say?"
she scoffed, "nothing."
"is that how it ended?"
she hesitated, "yeah.."

  she could tell there was much more belly wasn't telling her, but she didn't pry. she was glad she told her this much.

"i'm sorry bells."
she shook her head. "it's fine.. it was just keeping me up.. but i don't care."
"right. nevermind conrad, okay? tell me about your date."

  with that, belly's face lit up just a little. and jasmine knew she accomplished something. she spent an hour talking about her date with cam, and once the clock hit 3:00 am, she told her to go back to bed. and belly did.

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the next morning, the beach house was awake. everyone was in the kitchen, minus belly. jasmine was at the counter beside conrad, biting away at her muffin.
just a bit later, belly came downstairs.

"morning everyone."
everyone chorused "hey" back go her.
susannah was the first to hug her, "there's the birthday girl, looking like a vision in floral. happy birthday."
next, jeremiah, "happy sweet 16, bells," he said as he hugged her.
then jasmine got up quickly and tackled her into a hug, "happy birthday belly!"

  she shook her a little too hard, making her laugh.
"jasmine seems more excited than you," steven joked, he looked to belly, "but now belly button's getting old finally. happy birthday."
"thanks everyone," she laughed.

  jasmine stood at her side, with hands on her shoulders as laurel came over. she only released her when laurel hugged her.

"happy birthday, sweetheart."
"thanks mom."
"your mickey mouse pancakes are ready," she said. jasmine grabbed belly's shoulders again, and shook her a little.
"actually, i'm not really.. uh.. hungry."
"oh."
susannah spoke up quickly, "shall we open gifts?"
"oh, you're gonna love mine," jeremiah said.

  belly smiled, but jasmine noticed it falter slightly when she looked at conrad. she frowned, hugged her around the neck, and squeezed her lightly.

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a/n - woah??? so its been six months my bad gang😅😅 chapter was a little boring and you may have noticed i fixed up the book a little. I ACTUALLY PROMISE THIS TIME THE NEXT CHAPPTER WIL HOPEFULLY BE MORE INTERESTING